Martin Fowler's "Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code" is perhaps THE reference: Refactoring is a controlled technique for improving the design of an existing code base. Its essence …

Refactoring is modifying existing code to improve its readability, re-usability, performance, extensibility and maintainability. Have you ever looked at code and thought, "Wow this is a mess" or "this could …

Refactoring code is a process of cleaning up your code, reducing the clutter and improving the readability without causing any side effects or changes to features. Basically, you refactor by …

Assume that I am doing some refactoring in app's code that uses some relational database. It was decided that some columns and tables are not required from domain perspective, require renaming …

May 1, 2013 · Has refactoring come to mean "Changing Code" in common context? Many answers suggest refactoring may break code, but it can't by the definition of refactoring! If it breaks code, it's …

May 16, 2009 · Refactoring is a delicate and time consuming project. I would highly recommend Martin Fowler's Refactoring. It is the single most important tool I have found that has helped me improve my …

Refactoring a God Class is a complex task, as this disharmony is often a cumulative effect of other disharmonies that occur at the method level. Therefore, performing such a refactoring requires …

Mar 27, 2019 · I am trying to cleanup/refactor a legacy C# solution and am therefore exploring options how certain refactorings or quick actions could be applied for the entire solution. For example, Visual …

Jun 5, 2023 · If they're a built-in function or extension in VS Code to refactor any selected code into a subfunction? Or at least to analyse the code and show all dependencies/variables that would need to …

There is no way to turn refactoring off in the settings. My guess is that the project's cache/indexes are corrupted. I had a case once where refactoring, especially renames, stopped working. A re-index …